Chaos
Subtitle: making a new science
By: James Gleick.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems
Description: The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 318-340.
Includes index.